The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-29
BnEAKrAsr BUDGET.
Hear the merry merchants cry,
: "H0, the pretty ladies' 27tl'
Conc 10 SEQ and not 10 buyl
Doesn't IL beat Unlestr

Doesn't 1t beat Htdest' 4E8.L
: !, The word beer originally meant well. |
Boucicault is hard at work on a new
play. 5l'5l0 ,
Jack roses are fifteen dollars dozen in |
New York.
There Ia a Northwestern travelling man
named Two.
On the front tier-tho bald.hosded man
Of The ballet. lg7t .stzru
Oscar Wilde's baby Is lucky. 1t takes
after Its mother.
Slices Of llmbergar done up In tinioil are
Philadelphia novelty.
A $1,000 fan was one Of Mrs. George
Gould's Christmas gifts.
Most amateur artiuto' pictures are quite
10 bad nB they are painted. alE
Tho Utica Herald puts q death nptlce
under the head Of "Exports."
Oae OF the odd New York charitles ID q
fair In aid Of one.Cent dinners. a.
Kentucky haS moro than $4,000 people
who can neither read nor writo
The Presidents mother.in.law, Mrs. Fol-
Bcm, Is visiting atJacsson, Mich.
An oven $4,000 has been subscribed for
New Years bali OF Delmonico's.
President Cleveland will give the uaual
New Year reception next Monday.
The Star King monument fund at San
Francisco smounts to neatly $1,000, x
Joseph Pulitzer ia confined 70 darkened
room with acute inflammation Of tho eyes.
Volapuk, dear inquirer, is the language
In which tho train men call out tho sta-
tons.
Plate glass mirrors, 80 ornately painted
as 10 be uaeless, arc q now thing from
London.
Yale College, according to the annual
catalogue just Issued, has n total Of 1,245
students.
Within the lsst thirty years wheat
reached Ito highest price under q protec.
tive tariff.
The head Of an eighty-two pound cod.
fish Is exhibited as n rarity in Nav Bed
ford, Masa.
New York scotchmen propoue rowling
the subscription to put up monument 10
John Knox.
Anew York houaohas received an order
for 100000 livs.cent postage stamps for
use in Chill.
Mrs. Monnio Moore, Che Kansao poesess,
makeH kiss me quick" rhyme with
"arithmetic."
Too cold for ice cream and no Hleighine,
Tho young man who can't save money
now mover can.
A teacher recently asked pupil what
lbs. stood for. Elbows, guess" was the
unexpected reply.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
pays out $6,OO0,OOO annually III wsgos 10
it's II 600 employees.
Mira. M wiua you would observe
this beautiful statue Of Apollo; and this is
his vile, Apollinariu."
She-"Johu, what is coastwiss steam.
err" He-"One that knowa how to keep
oil the rocka, darling" -
Nine cables connect Europe and Amer.
lea. Altogether there arc now In uss 49,
600 nautical miles Of cable.
Two men wrapped horsen in Hartweli,
Gs., one day last week, and ono gave the
other Navigation OF molassea to boot.
A ton OF diamonds ia worth thirty mil.
lion dollars. Don't let the deslsrs come
the eightesn.hundrel pound dodge on
you.
Joel Arnold, Of Colchester, Conn, re-
Gently trapped a white weszsl, the like OF
which, old hunters gsy, WAC never seen in
Connecticut.
The oldes! inhabitant says the water in
Lake Huron is lower than it.ever wa. be.
fore. 1t is eighteen inches lover than i.
was a yeer ago.
An old tradition says: II Christmas
lails on Sunday, there will ba fine and
fair summe-, aud tho child born OF that
day will be great lord.
SLe-"Lan' OBJ de libonl Bruddor Eli
Did you come GU do kyars or by private
conTeyance?" He-"Private convey.
ance, child walked"
a trout which weighed TWENTY-FIVE
pounds and measured four feet four inches
in length was recently caught in Lake
Mendoza, Near Madison, Wis.
Husband-"My dear, do you think that
l am conceited about my personal appear.
ance?" Wife (thoughtiully)- swell, yes,
John, q little. Most homeiy mon are, you
know 4.